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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 10:01 AM
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Communist/Marxist/Socialist/Secular Humanist Worldview Thinker
www.worldviewweekend.com

I got a score of -65%

Take the test and post your score here...I'd also like to discuss some of the questions with you, if you want to.

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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 10:16 AM
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1. Sorry, not about to register with those freaks
Nice try, though.
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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 10:35 AM
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3. Use a fake e-mail address. It doesn't care.
I only managed a -57, but I'm still a good "Communist/Marxist/Socialist/Secular Humanist Worldview Thinker".

You'd think after all these centuries of different Christian cults being so terribly wrong on just about everything, that no group today would be so damn sure that they just KNOW what their god wants. But alas, it is not to be.
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Bellamia Donating Member (671 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 10:59 AM
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5. You managed a -57
so you are a heck of a lot "smarter" than I am, with a -14. Not that my score surprizes me, I knew it all along, been a secular humanist for eons!;>)
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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 11:04 AM
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12. Not smarter, just more evil.
Muah ha ha ha. :evilgrin:
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 11:03 AM
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10. I used George Bush as a name, and gwb@whitehouse.gov for my email
addy.
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Bellamia Donating Member (671 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 10:33 AM
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2. If you want to ....
discuss questions, o.k. I'll be back after I visit the site.
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 11:01 AM
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6. What of the question using the bible to justify war, and
capital punishment?


Is that in the old testament somewhere? Because I'm sure that Jesus said, "Blessed are the peace-makers" and "Do unto others"

somewhere there's a "judge not, lest ye be judged"
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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 11:06 AM
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13. The magic of the bible!
Jesus also said that he came not to bring peace, but a sword.

The bible has so many texts written by so many people with so many agendas, you can literally use it to "biblically support" just about any position on any issue.

Which is why many of us want its influence far, far away from government.
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 11:08 AM
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14. What version of the bible uses that language...I dno't recall Jesus
being anything but a peacenik.
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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 11:16 AM
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21. Matthew 10:34
"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword."
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 11:18 AM
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23. Could something have been lost in the translation? What is the context?
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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 11:26 AM
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26. Oh I have no doubt things have been lost in translation.
That's part of the reason the bible is such a messed up book today.

But that's a quote from the New International Version, which according to the bible site tried to be as true as possible to the original text:

The New International Version (NIV) is a translation made by more than one hundred scholars working from the best available Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts. It was conceived in 1965 when, after several years of study by committees from the Christian Reformed Church and the National Association of Evangelicals, a trans-denominational and international group of scholars met at Palos Heights, Illinois, and agreed on the need for a new translation in contemporary English. ...

The translation of each book was assigned to a team of scholars, and the work was thoroughly reviewed and revised at various stages by three separate committees.The Committee submitted the developing version to stylistic consultants who made invaluable suggestions. Samples of the translation were tested for clarity and ease ofreading by various groups of people. In short, perhaps no other translation has been made by a more thorough process of review and revision.
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 11:27 AM
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27. If the scholors who translated it are anything like the one's who made up
this test, I have no doubt it's completely perverted.
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Postman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 10:57 AM
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4. Didn't Christ teach "communism" in the true sense of the word?
Edited on Thu Mar-03-05 11:06 AM by Postman
he certainly wasn't teaching "capitalism", which is basically - greed.

It just goes to show how distorted and hi-jacked the message of the non-violent Christ has become in the hands of rightwing lunatics.

The same people who want to prevent abortions are against birth-control and any kind of gov't aide mothers may need to help raise their babies. So we end up with a society where women become breed-mares and all the little starving children running around are no ones responsibility but the birth-mothers.



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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 11:02 AM
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7. LOL! I loved that one...I'd really like to see where Jesus preached
capitalism...didn't he say, "It would be easier for a camel to pass throught the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to get into heaven"
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Bellamia Donating Member (671 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 11:03 AM
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8. True sense of the word communism............
What would that be? I want to be sure before I agree with you, but one thing I do agree with is that Jesus didn't teach "capitalism', or any political system, I don't think.
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Postman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 11:13 AM
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18. in the sense that...
Edited on Thu Mar-03-05 11:18 AM by Postman
everything was shared.

Jesus was the original "peace protester"

He was a threat to the power structure because of his unique way of protest - "non-violence"

He was able to unite people in non-violent action against tyranny and unjust rule.

Today he would be labeled a "commie, pinko, liberal" by the very people who use his name to justify their ignorance.


BTW: "capitalism" isn't a political system, its an economic system.
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 11:03 AM
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9. -28
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 11:04 AM
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11. I must be really evil if I got a -65....(nt)
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Viking12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 11:09 AM
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15. A: Tend to disagree
Q: George W. Bush is the President of the United States of America.
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 11:11 AM
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16. This is ugly: As long as government is serving the purpose for which God
created it, government is approved by God.
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 11:13 AM
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17. Did you know that God is 'supportive' of an economic system based on
private property, the work ethic, and personal responsibility.
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Postman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 11:20 AM
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24. Am I to assume from this that GOD gave vast swaths of land to
King George back during Colonial times that didn't originally belong to him?

What a bunch of freakin' wackos.
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 11:24 AM
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25. If you liked that, you'll LOVE this one:
The most biblically based tax system would be one based on a flat tax system where everyone pays the same percentage of their income in taxes.
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 11:14 AM
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19. on Capital Punishment:
The Bible states that the government does not bear the sword in vain. Numerous verses throughout the Bible make it clear that capital punishment administered by the government, for those that have committed capital crimes, is biblically acceptable.


:puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:
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Vladimir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 11:14 AM
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20. I only manage a -21% amazingly enough
but some of these questions show an ignorance of Marxism. For example, its not the job of the federal government to create wealth, Marxist or no. The job of a Marxist federal government may be to stop the hoarding of wealth by a few individuals, but that's a different story.

I also manage to score 83% (!) on social issues through questions like: "Truth is either nonexistent or unknoweable". I strongly disagree, which seems to make me a Biblical thinker... well, their definition of truth and mine clearly differ. The Moon ain't made of cheese, and that's the truth, and its damn well knowable. This website seems to assume that the only options are the Bible and a bastardised postmodernism, which is bollocks IMO.
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 11:17 AM
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22. check out my post regarding the question on Capital punishment
Their "religion" is nothing more than a cult...a perversion, a bastardization of everything the JC stood for.
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JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 11:46 AM
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28. -43, Whoo-hoo!
Edited on Thu Mar-03-05 11:47 AM by JHB
I'm sure I'd have gotten worse if I haddn't put "no opinion" on a lot of the "bible-believing christians should think this"-type questions, since I'm not one.

Looking at the breakdown, oddly enough I scored a +50 ("Moderate Biblical Worldview Thinker") on Education because they don't recognize that left-libertarians can superficially come up with answers similar to theirs, though for profoundly different reasons.
Balanced it out with -50 on Religion and -58 for Science, luckily. Wouldn't want anyone getting a bad impression of me.
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 11:52 AM
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29. That's funny...I guess you're still not as bad as me....-65, without even
trying.
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 11:56 AM
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30. -55 They must be heating up the barbecue.
"Man is the only animal to have found the One, True, God..several of them." Mark Twain
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 12:27 PM
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31. Well, Once again, Twain proves his genius...thanks for playing ;)
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